Florida continues to promote unfettered growth without paying attention to the water demands of all those new people and businesses. 

Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge in Vero Beach was the first site in a program that now features nearly 600 locations. Paul Tritiak was the former refuge manager at Pelican Island and tells us how the refuge came to be.

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